🚀 go-pugleaf

Phil Hoff <phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu> writes:

> doriang@microsoft.com (Dorian Garson) wrote:
> 
> > Proposal: Is it possible to write an app that could capture programs & 
> > data from an old computer's cassette interface via a sound card?  
> 
> I remember reading in an old Pirate's Handbook that duplicating 
> Commodore tapes by Audio means was very unreliable. To get a reliable
> copy, you had to load the program and save it back out, and that only
> worked for unprotected software. I can't help but wonder if an audio
> readout from tape to a sound card would not suffer from the same
> problem.

I seem to recall that the reason you needed the special Commodore
cassette unit was that they actually tried to do true digital
recording. Trying to copy that on an audio deck (or even with a sound
card) is not going to work well, as the signals will be *majorly*
distorted. 


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